In classical fascism, an organization that was at first externally and strictly hierarchically structured for the state gained dominance over the state apparatuses through the legal assumption of power, and then merged with them in a specific way, whereby the capitalist system that had fallen into crisis could be maintained ...
Saturday December 1st, the Gilets Jaunes movement had ceased to belong and be the movement of lower-class White France which it ...
I promised another post on fictions, but first, and by means of introduction, a few more remarks on populism, prompted by Bat at Lenin’s Tomb, Jon at Posthegemonic Musings, Le Colonel Chabert and Kenneth Rufo at Ghost in the Wire.
Bat claims that Zizek’s anti-populist polemic ends up re-affirming the ...
k punk, liberalism, Mark Fisher, population, Populism, Žižek
Free movement over markets is a minimum demand.
In the most recent German elections, Die Linke (the Left) secured the fifth most seats in the Bundestag, the nation’s parliament. At the same time, nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) came third, to the consternation of everyone who isn’t an asshole. While ...
Leseprobe aus: Sebastian Budgen / Stathis Kouvelakis / Slavoj Žižek (Hrsg.): Lenin Reloaded – Für eine Politik der Wahrheit
Laika Verlag
… Obwohl Laclaus Populismustheorie als eines der heutigen großen (und für die Gesellschaftstheorie leider raren) Beispiele einer wirklichen konzeptuellen Stringenz heraussticht, sollte man einige problematische Aussagen beachten. Die erste ...
